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Our first task on our first morning in Edinburgh was to procure local SIM cards for our phones so that we could make good use of them while in Scotland. I admit to being surprised when I received a call less than two hours later from a local group wanting to talk to me about …

Having dropped my parents off at the Amtrak station on a Saturday morning a couple of weeks ago, I finally found myself with a bit of time to write about our trip to Lake Tahoe! My parents come out for a visit about once a year. They used to drive, but that drive has become …

As we were leaving Zion National Park, Steve and I talked about how nice the town of Springdale was; I mentioned that it was a town that had really benefited from having the national park there. It had a relatively large number of restaurants, catering to several types of cuisine and pocketbooks, and a bunch …

This month, Steve and I took a week and headed out to Utah. The impetuous for the trip was a visit to Best Friends Animal Society at the end of the week, but we decided to take a few extra days and spend time in a couple of national parks. Our first couple of days …

As you may recall, this was the vacation for which I didn’t do much advance planning, the “fly by the seat of our pants”, low pre-planned activity vacation – at which Steve, as we near the end of our trip, scoffs. But the fact is many of our activities weren’t scheduled until a week or …

Up again for the sunrise. Three whole days with relatively little activity is virtually unheard of on my vacations; today, we got back into my version of “vacation mode” with a hike in Waimea Canyon State Park. This is a hike I’ve been wanting to do for years. As Steve put it as he resignedly …

We should have spent last Saturday repairing and remodeling our foster care raccoon cage before the season hits us between the eyes. Instead, we took advantage of the absolutely gorgeous weather and the relatively rare lack of fog and low clouds in southern Marin to go on a hike. And I don’t regret it one bit. …

Yesterday, Steve and I went for a short hike at Olompali State Park. It had been such a gorgeous weekend and we just had to get out and enjoy some of the sunshine. As we were hiking around a bend, Steve stopped me and pointed out 2 turkey vultures sitting on a fence about 50 …

There has been another trailhead that has called to me during our previous trips to Kauai, but we have never ventured onto it until today. This morning we drove to the end of the road on the North Shore to hike the first portion of the Kalalau Trail. When we first got to the Ke’e …

We headed out (relatively) early this morning to go on a hike I’ve been wanting to do for years: the Pihea Trail to the Alaka’i Swamp Trail. To get to the trailhead, you have to go all the way up to the very end of Waimea Canyon Drive. It takes a full 40 minutes to …